The Black Paper Boat hovered at the mouth of the cave. Paper figures kept climbing down from it, transforming into Military Formation Puppets that surged inside.
Yu Sui dropped to her knees from the pain. Xue Mushi felt the World Destroyer's Death Empathy for the first time, and after being slashed by a Military Formation Puppet, he staggered as he pressed forward.
Neither of them made a sound.
Because in their consciousness, the youth far away in the Dan Kingdom was screaming in despair, "Why are you doing this to me!"
"Why!"
"What did I do wrong? I did everything you told me to! I told you everything I knew! What more do you want from me!?"
As he screamed in despair, a voice, neither masculine nor feminine, asked, "What did you tell them?"
"Why am I the only one suffering like this? Why am I the only one? It's not fair! Why me!" The youth was only nineteen. His first half of life had been carefree; his second was dark and wretched. He laughed and cried, his desperate howls turning savage. "I told them everything! I told them everything I knew! They all know now! You won't escape either! Why should I be the only one? Why should I be the only one who ends up like this!"
The youth lay facedown at the Alley End, barely clinging to life, unable to move.
The Legalism School Saint's Judgment Technique, Lingering Death by a Thousand Cuts, was attacking him, but he fought back with grim tenacity. His eyes were bloodshot. Through the red haze, he looked ahead, searching beneath the crowd's feet for the place he wanted to return to. But he could never go back.
The youth was on his last breath, yet hatred made him seem full of